Munged Headers....

[Ed Greshko]

Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 13:08:00 +0800,
>   Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
>   
>> Here is one interesting example of your handiwork....  I love the Cc:
>>     
>
> If you go back and look at Frank's message you will see that his email
> client incorrectly tried to use RFC 2047 style encoding. Spaces are prohibitted
> in quoted words. Mutt appears to try to avoid having partial RFC 2047 escapes
> bare and so encodes them to prevent problems. So the actual cc from my message
> should be displayed to look like the broken header from Frank's message.
> So it will still look odd (because the header was messed up in Frank's
> message(, but not as odd as the raw header (unless your email client doesn't
> understand RFC 2047 encoding).
>
> In other words my mail client was correctly using the to header from Frank's
> messages to use in the cc header in the message I sent.
>   
I am sorry to report that you are wrong again....

If you actually look at Frank's email you'd see the entire text portion
is enclosed in quotes and

If I go to his original email, TBird displays and replies to it
correctly as do the 3 other user agents I've tried.

So, not only is your stripping of headers improper, mutt seems broken as
well.... 

(Damn....just noticed I was replying just to you again....glad I saw
it....will have to adjust filters soon....)

>   
>> From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to>
>> To: Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net>
>> Message-ID: <20090923173611.GB27527 at wolff.to>
>> References:
>> <OF18F6C2F1.693F43CD-ON8525763A.004995FD-8525763A.004A2679 at MACYS.com>
>>         <1253713090.18252.2.camel at politzer.theorphys.helsinki.fi>
>>         <20090923100526.69deafe9.theatre at sasktel.net>
>> In-Reply-To: <20090923100526.69deafe9.theatre at sasktel.net>
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